The Love Fool

I got the meta achievement with Larthas today. It took a while, but i did it with guildies, so it was fun. This means there's just one more meta until i get my Violet Proto-drake.

In other news, not much else happened. Both Larthas and Hastral did their dailies, i made some money, and that's about it. 

Btw, if you want to get some of the charm bracelets really fast, go to Ulduar. You can just keep killing the iron dwarves in the area before flame leviathan. If you place yourself correctly, you can just stand still and bash the #1 action button. It's boring as hell, but it's fast.

Love is in the Air

It's here! One of the last two world events that i need to complete is here! Even better, the other one will be here in a week. They changed it a bit this year. If you dedicate yourself, you can finish most of it in a day and it's not really luck related. I already finished a few achievements, did the dungeon with both Larthas and Hastral and got a rose for Hastral that he holds in his mouth (^_^).

Right now, I will be farming lucky charms in order to get most of the other achievements out of the way. Who knows, i might even get the title on both Larthas and Hastral. 

In other news, Larthas is working on a tanking set for dungeons only, and Hastral finally completed his tier 9. I started PVP again on Larthas and i hope to do better in arena this season. More about all this later! 

Exams! And some other stuff...

I had for the past few weeks and i still have exams, which is why both of my blogs were on hold. I still played games, mostly World of Warcraft, but i didn't make much progress so there wasn't much to post about. Anyways, some stuff happened, so lets try to make a recap. Now let's see where i was last time i posted...

Wow, it really has been a while, hasn't it?

In fact, it has been so long, that Hastral even managed to get to 80 and earn enough emblems of triumph to get 3 of his T9 gear pieces. Other than that, he got some other upgrades, so he now does close to 3k DPS on single targets, and frequently crosses 10k on groups. This also frequently overaggroes the mobs, so he dies, but thats faillock for you. He is also earning frost emblems by doing daily randoms and weekly raids, so hopefully, Larthas will be able to get his saronite soon.

Now, regarding Larthas, he really was on hold achievement wise. He managed to kill Festergut with his guild, and his guild managed to kill Rotface without him (damn exams). Putricide is still up on 25man, but the guild did get a server first in 10man, again without Larthas (damn exams). He has some wonderful gear now, including 2 pieces of his Tier 10 set, and some best in slot boots, rings and some other stuff. All in all, gear is progressing nicely even though he was forced to miss most of the raids (damn exams).

My gold industry is doing wonderfully to. I broke the 40 000 barrier, then went down a few thousand due to unforeseen expenses, and then broke it again a day later. Since I'm rich now, i decided to inst the money in more ways of earning it. I ditched my level 2 (exploration XP FTW) warrior banker, made a girl draenei death knight (cause people prefer to buy stuff from girls) and leveled her to 65 so she can max the jewelcrafting profession. This again set me back for a couple of thousands, but i think it will be worth it eventually. I decided to level her as a tank, and it worked out great. Most of the time, the instance queues were instant, i got plenty of XP, and i think i actually like tanking. Anyways, she is level 65 now and retired for the time being, so i will continue to use her as my new banker. As for making money from jewelcrafting, first i need to learn how to do it and follow the market a bit. Her album is added to the sidebar for some progression pictures (which i again forgot to take from the start).

Oh, before i forget, Blizzard added some fun new features to the armory page, so i will see what i can do with those on this blog. 

Of Quests, Dungeons and Frost

For the last week or so, i invested some time in Hastral. It's nothing major, but i did play a few hours a day and got him to level 76. I want to get him to 80 as soon as possible so i can do the weekly raid with him and farm Primoridal Saronite for Larthas and his Shadowmourne quest. Mos of the experience i got was trough running random Northrend dungeons. This also got me a few triumph emblems so i hope to get something for him really soon after he gets to 80.  After he dings for the last time (at least until Cataclysm) i plan to get another one to a higher level to. I'm not sure which one it will be, but I'm leaning towards Sathral, since his tailoring might be a good way to make gold. 

As for Larthas, i really didn't play much with him. For the most part, I'm raiding and doing the heroic daily to get frost emblems. I managed to get 60 for the first time and bought my Tier 10 shoulders immediately. Also, Justicebringer finally dropped in ToTC 25, so i was "forced" to spend all of my DKP in order to get it. Sadly, Icecrown Citadel drops a better weapon even on 10 man, so it probably won't last long.

The economy was good also. I managed to break the 25k gold barrier, but I'm now back at 22k after buying loads of low cost merchandise. I plan to sell this soon, so i might even break 30k in the near future. Most of my income comes from selling Eternal Fire that i bought cheap a week or so ago, as well as from transmuting Saronite to Titanium. This one is steadily declining, though, so i will have to find a new source of income soon.

Winter Veil

So i got the Merrymaker achievement on Larthas. This means that only need Fool for Love and To Honor One's Elders for What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been meta achievement. Only a few months to go! Other than that, the guild finally managed to clear the currently available part of Icecrown Citadel and i was actually there for the achievement this time. I didn't get any new gear yet, because i want to save my DKP for a good weapon that drops off the first boss. I really need a weapon upgrade so i think this is my best option. 

As for Hastral, i didn't play that much with him. I completed a few quests and managed to do the daily normal dungeon for the 2 emblems on each of the last few days. He is almost level 73 and he got a new staff fron Azjol-Nerub. I still didn't get Nexus as a random dungeon for some reason, so hopefully this will happen today.

Other than that, i decided to get Salthra to level 10 so he appears on the armory and i got him an heirloom mace for his other hand. As for my finances, they are doing fine. I was at 18k two days ago, but then I've spent around 5k for various items on the AH that looked like a bargain. At the moment I'm selling those items. I already got my investment back and i still have loads to sell, so i think it was a good move. Titanium prices are steadily declining so i get less money from that lately, but the prices of Eternal Fire and Abyss Crystals are all around the place so i get a nice amount from buying these items when the price is low and reselling some other day.

Yes! It's here!

Patch 3.3 has finally arrived and I'm loving it. We completed the 3 new heroics the first afternoon in a semi pug group. It took some wipes, but we managed. Also, Battered Hilt but another guild mate got it on a roll so ill try for it some other day. We also started clearing Icecrown Citadel in 25 man. We didn't have any luck with it the first evening, but we managed to kill Lord Marrowgar yesterday night. Lady Deathwhisper seems even harder, but i have a feeling we are doing something wrong, so hopefully she fill go down soon. 

I've spent a big part of the day yesterday chain running random dungeons with Larthas, which got me some money, some enchanting materials, 2 Emblems of Frost and close to 50 Emblems of Triumph. I also got some of those the first day of the patch, witch means i finally got enough to buy the Mark of Supremacy and Turalyon's Battleplate of Triumph . I had about 50 left after buying all that so i also bought Furious Gladiator's Scaled Shoulders, for my PVP gear set.

As for Hastral, I've Toured the Fjord with him just a few minutes ago. He is extremely close to dinging 72, but i decided to take a break now. I also managed to pug Utgarde Keep with him and got a nice upgrade for my head - Reinforced Velvet Helm. I managed to top the DPS meters, but it seems there are errors with those things due to problems with cross-realm communication, so i can't be sure.

On a small side-note, i finally broke the 10 000 gold barrier on my bank alt today. It seems that stockpiling resources for the patch payed off. I still have allot to sell, so i expect more soon. 

Getting back into the game...

Exams are finally over, so I'm starting to play more again. Problem is, I didn't have a working phone line for two days, so i didn't really get the chance to play properly. All i did was a 10 man Ulduar and a 25 man  TotC raid with Larthas and that's about it. Also, there are rumors about Icecrown Citadel hitting us this week so I'm excited about that. I plan to do raiding with Larthas, and level my alts with the help of the new instance system. Larthas still needs 10 or so emblems of triumph so he can get a new hit rating trinket and his t9.5 chest.